According to reports, Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, says he will “reluctantly” contest the 2023 presidency in a joint ticket with Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation if President Muhammadu Buhari insists. Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, several politicians have declared their ambition for the number one seat while some are still making consultations.

Well, many people see this as El-Rufai being his usual brutally frank self. And has indicated that Amaechi has been anointed by the president. But many Nigerians have reasons to think differently.

Firstly, if that is true and El-Rufai respects the president as much as he wants us to believe in the interview, why would a man of his intelligence and experience in politics reveal the president’s position and preference on a national television? Knowing the implications and upheaval it will have on the party. The alignment of forces at the party’s upcoming convention and primaries, the APC government itself and the overheating of the polity as both the ruling party and opposition parties re-strategize to defeat the so mentioned ‘anointed one’.

El Rufai is too smart and this looks like a strategy to stir up a fierce potent gang up against Ameachi by all the power blocks in APC as well as the opposition. We know Wike will rather shelve his ambition, empty Rivers state treasury to ensure Amaechi never emerges. El Rufai’s statement in this light is therefore not a flippant leak perse but a calculated weaponized tale to stir up a gang up against Amaechi ahead of the convention & primaries.

Whatever it is, this El-Rufai’s interview has underlined the need for the GAC group, who the 2023 presidency is theirs to lose in February next year, to close ranks, put their house in order, squash this feud propagated by sponsored speculators between Tinubu & Osinbajo & come up with a common front in Tinubu, Osinbajo or Fashola.

For real he did mistakenly

I saw how the moderators edited the topic when I posted the thread last week

The APC presidential flag bearer has Igbo name to his names

Yes he did

Fear short ppl

It's not a mistake. It's politics

i think El-Rufai will do well as president.... Don't quote me

Buziness101:
i think El-Rufai will do well as president.... Don't quote me

Lol.

Okay

Elrufai will never allow tinubu get apc ticket

He probably used Amaechi as an example cos Amaechi is a southern Christian. And a president and his vice can't be for the same region or religion or both.

SW have had there turn with Obasanjo and Osibanjo but greed won't allow them support SE or SS. So it's either power comes to SE or SS or North can keep it forever, we don't care and we're used to surviving without government support.

I suspect they're planning to use HBP to kill somebody before the election...

SadiqBabaSani:
Fear short ppl

Lol. What does his height have to do with it?

enyi1:
SW have had there turn with Obasanjo and Osibanjo but greed won't allow them support SE or SS. So it's either power comes to SE or SS or North can keep it forever, we don't care and we're used to surviving without government support.

As if SE ready to support their own.
As at now only Tinubu doing consultation in SW but everyone Consulting to be President in SE and no one ready to step down for another As its going.


SE..Help yourself first.

Op number 1, El rufai didn't bring up amaechi name by himself

It was channels that asked him if he would fly under an amaechi ticket (apparently channels have seen the political direction of buhari)

There is nobody in apc that doesn't know it's amaechi unless they want to deceive themselves

It actually changes nothing, because nobody in apc can fight it, the powers that be keep fine-tuning the process to favor amaechi everyday that at the end when the channel is clear nobody can do anything because it followed a due process

On Igbo Republic of BIAFRA we stand!

Buhari (North) and Osibanjo (Yoruba) have destroyed Nigeria.

enyi1:
SW have had there turn with Obasanjo and Osibanjo but greed won't allow them support SE or SS. So it's either power comes to SE or SS or North can keep it forever, we don't care and we're used to surviving without government support.

very simple..

You people should go back to the drawing board and come back with a strategy.

Apc never again yet Amaechi for same president under Apc.

How confused can one be

APC is full of deceits, with Clueless Buhari playing demi-god unilaterally deciding issues while Malami is remote controlling him. Malami has been with Remote control of Buhari after Abba Kyari death. Malami presses PLAY and STOP at will.
They will so deceive and frustrate themselves going to the elections.
Yemi Osibanjo is their best candidate, but APC people are full of deceits with selfish intents and won't see him as best potential to win for APC.
Anyway, 2023 will come and go, any body will be president but definitely not Tinubu. The gods have rejected that old crook.